San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-06-25
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs

| Texas TO be Paradise, Paris TO be the
bower OF Adam, and himself the keeper
OF the tree OF all knowledge. Prov.
| xxvi-l2.
The New Era, OF this city, thinks that
the Times has chewed up several
schools OF the prophets" and Is now
treating them as the whale treated
Jonah.
How many train robbers has that Fort
Worth resolution captured? Where are
the train robbers who snatched things
bald headed under the eye and ear Of
the resOlutersY Resolutions do not catch
train robbers.
The COtulla Ledger man is afraid Of
going to heaven lest, as he wings
his way over San Antonio, the aroma OF
"those eggs" will stife his olfactOries.
At least that Is fair inference from his
language.
THE editorial columns OF the Beeville
Bee are as full OF the hOodlum act and
conspiracy case in this city as the eggs
out of which that was Matched were Of
unsavoriness. The Bee can gather no
prohibition honey out Of that affair.
The democrats are doing all the squab-
bling over the Sherman boom, and the
comments come very generally from
democratic journals. The republicans
are waiting for the nominating cenyen-
ton.
G. W. SMALLEY, London Correspon-
| dent New York Tribune, SAYS that Mrs.
| Potter Is steadily improving in her act
Ing, and her representation OF Annie
Sylvester draws, Notwithstanding the
| play is generally execrated.
The preachers who have put prohibi-
ton before gospel, st. John before Jesus
and questions OF meat and drink before
the charity that doth not behave itself
unseemly-these preachers, are be-
| ginning 10 look tired.
WHEN Judge Reagan prepares a pro-
hibition speech to-day, he merely
reaches for his anti-prOhibition speech
OF two years ago and reyerses its state
ments. 1t Is a pure case OF Here | go
by the rule Of contrary"
The Blanco News reaches the climax
| OF its eulogy on Crantil. by remarking:
| "Crantil, editor Of the Waco Advance, is
| doing his best" The same may be said
OF skunk on occasion. 1t is merely
matter of taste.
In her recent trip to the AdirOndacks
Mrs. Cleveland landed two very fine fish
| in advance OF any OF the party The
sucker that she landed something over a
year ago was watching the sport from
another boat.
The treasury secretary informs the
country that he has his eye on Wall
| street, and should any evidences OF a
| financial furry present themselves he
will come to the relief with 100000 of
July interest.
The steady decrease in the consump-
| tiOn OF alcoholic drinks has determined
the distillers TO suspend operations for
| one year. This is no doubt owing to the
| increased use OF beer and wine. Pas
| prohibition laws and the sales OF alcohol
| Will be increased and the sales of beer
and wine largely curtailed.
ARMOUR is a good Christian and gives
| literally to church enterprises. He
| CANDLES on the food products of the
| country, squeeZes pork until it soOOts up
eight or ten dollars a barrel, and by
| grinding the poor, makes good the
words of holy writ, the poor We always
have with ye." Phil pays literally for
his preaching.
THE heroes are not all dead That
| young lady was a live specimen who
| swan ashore with six year old daugh-
| ter of the captain from the burning
Champlain, and ordered the boat that
| came TO her rescue to go on and save
those who were drowning. Her name
was Miss Mary Wakefield, of Charlie
| roi, a true heroine.
Two out of the five alleged train rob-
| bers recently captured and brought to
| this city have been discharged from Gus
| tOdy, there being no evidence against
| them. These cases seem to follow very
| closely the order of arrest and discharge
noted in the Georgetown and Fort Worth
rObberies of recent date. This business
seems to narrow itself down to a science
| and the work OF capture should also be
made one OF the exact sciences.
UNCLE DAN'L is poking arithmetic at
the Dallas Herald and convincing that
dry" organ OF sounding 3 very false
| financial note in summing up the eX-
! penditures Of the aqueous advocates.
! The gospel OF prohibition seems to be
! free, but somehow 1t costs good deal to
pay for the pitchers that carry the
waters of this river of life.
THE Fort Worth Gazette knows a
| good thing when il sees it. 1t has safe
position on that top rail, has no special
Interest in the fight, and does not pro-
| pose to touch terra-tirma until the fight
is ended. Like the old man who sat in
the loft smoking while his wife was
| wrestling with the bear, he is waiting
to see which one ticks. Safe but not
dignified.
The fire tiend continues his raYages
and rolls up a total Of destroyed proper
| ty for 1887 that is truly appalling.
| Chicago reports the loss by fire Of her
rolling mills and the throwing of twelve
! hundred hands out OF work in cOnse-
quenCe thereof. WinOna, Mimi, loses
one of her large lumber mills and three
hundred hands are idle there
FATHER MCGLYNN shows no signs of
making his peace with Rome. In re-
cent article he stigmatiZed the church at
Rome as the Roman machine whose
engineers prOtiting by its power and
its movements, are really laughing in
their sleeves at us for our excessive
submissiveness to their power and for
our excessive generosity in contributing
Peters pence to the support OF whole
army OF laCkies and flunkies, both Law
and clerical, who surround the pope
with barbGric pOmp, scarcely equalled
by that OF any imperial despOtic court"
The words OF the rocalatiant priest will
be milk and honey to Henry George.
who has been egging McGlynn to q final
rupture with Rome, and now sees his
work about to be crowned with success
The New Orleans Times Democrat. in
a recent editorial on the ''substitutes for
coal, " concludes with the opinion that
natural gas and coal Oil will displace a
large quantity of coal as a fuel and steam
producer and then remarks: The coal
regions, however, are not likely to sui
fer, as natural gas and petroleum are
really products of coal" This Is not